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| author | Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> | 2025-01-29 18:06:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-03-16 22:06:01 -0700 |
| commit | 58ba73e521b3d3a7a7612fc200beba1544a5100c (patch) | |
| tree | c37149e157c3de7d5b8647cd1920913ca519a62e /Documentation/mm | |
| parent | 350dce38eb6e221cca16940f3bd8d9947364f1ca (diff) | |
mm: z3fold: remove z3fold
Patch series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud", v2.
After 2 cycles of deprecating z3fold, remove it as well as zbud (rationale
in specific patches).
This patch (of 2):
Z3fold has been marked as deprecated for 2 cycles and no one complained,
as expected. As there are no known users, remove the code now.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129180633.3501650-1-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129180633.3501650-2-yosry.ahmed@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/z3fold.rst | 28 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/mm/index.rst index 0be1c7503a01..d3ada3e45e10 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/index.rst @@ -62,5 +62,4 @@ documentation, or deleted if it has served its purpose. unevictable-lru vmalloced-kernel-stacks vmemmap_dedup - z3fold zsmalloc diff --git a/Documentation/mm/z3fold.rst b/Documentation/mm/z3fold.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 25b5935d06c7..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/mm/z3fold.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ -====== -z3fold -====== - -z3fold is a special purpose allocator for storing compressed pages. -It is designed to store up to three compressed pages per physical page. -It is a zbud derivative which allows for higher compression -ratio keeping the simplicity and determinism of its predecessor. - -The main differences between z3fold and zbud are: - -* unlike zbud, z3fold allows for up to PAGE_SIZE allocations -* z3fold can hold up to 3 compressed pages in its page -* z3fold doesn't export any API itself and is thus intended to be used - via the zpool API. - -To keep the determinism and simplicity, z3fold, just like zbud, always -stores an integral number of compressed pages per page, but it can store -up to 3 pages unlike zbud which can store at most 2. Therefore the -compression ratio goes to around 2.7x while zbud's one is around 1.7x. - -Unlike zbud (but like zsmalloc for that matter) z3fold_alloc() does not -return a dereferenceable pointer. Instead, it returns an unsigned long -handle which encodes actual location of the allocated object. - -Keeping effective compression ratio close to zsmalloc's, z3fold doesn't -depend on MMU enabled and provides more predictable reclaim behavior -which makes it a better fit for small and response-critical systems. |